Draft Genome Sequence of the Probiotic Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. boulardii Strain ATCC MYA-796

T M Batista; E T A Marques Jr; G R Franco; B Douradinha

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01345-14

Draft Genome Sequence of the Probiotic Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. boulardii Strain ATCC MYA-796

Genome Announc. 2014 Dec 18;2(6):e01345-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01345-14.

Authors

T M Batista¹, E T A Marques Jr², G R Franco³, B Douradinha⁴

Affiliations

¹ Departamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil thiagomafra@gmail.com brd49@pitt.edu.
² University of Pittsburgh, Center of Vaccine Research, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
³ Departamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
⁴ thiagomafra@gmail.com brd49@pitt.edu.

Abstract

Saccharomyces boulardii is the only yeast approved as a probiotic for human consumption. Here, we report the draft genome sequence of the strain ATCC MYA-796, derived from the French Ultra Levure probiotic drug. The genome has a size of 11.6 Mb with 5,305 putative open reading frames predicted.